RCCN Goals and Leadership

The problems associated with an aging society transcend the boundaries of any specific discipline and play out across multiple biologic and societal domains ranging from individual cells, to organs and organ systems, to persons, to communities, to national and world economies. The six National Institute on Aging (NIA) Center programs address important topics in aging but typically from a specific disciplinary perspective.

The objective of the Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) is to initiate new cross-disciplinary collaborative networks that bring together key thought leaders from each of the six NIA center programs to align approaches across programs that will uncover synergies and insights that lead to novel collaborations.

The RCCN website supports linkages between the six NIA center programs and shares center-related resources, funding and meetings opportunities, and webinars.

Stephen Kritchevsky, Ph.D.

Stephen Kritchevsky, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine and Translational Science at Wake Forest School of Medicine where he serves as Director of the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention, and Wake Forest Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. He is also an Associate Director of the Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

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The website is managed by Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the American Federation for Aging Research, which co-manage the Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN). The RCCN is funded by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U24AG058556. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.